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Ms Dryburgh also composed the music and words of The Captives Hymn.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024

At first, leaders of Helping Captives were unsure about the building due to its history.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024

The majority of “Indian Captives Acquired by Purchase” were Navajo, forcibly removed by Carson from their homelands.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

Captives are in-house insurance firms created within corporations, used to insure their operations instead of buying coverage from an outside insurance company.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2017

And this same cause enlisted also a prolific contemporary genius, called by Cervantes "that prodigy," Lop� de Vega, who commended it in a play entitled Los Cautivos de Argel, The Captives of Algiers.

From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles